Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. DIPLOMATIC AREA IN KABUL HIT WITH MASSIVE EXPLOSION
Officials say a suicide car bombing in the highly secured area kills at least 80 people and wounds 350 more as the blast sent a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital.
2. RUSSIAN WARSHIPS HIT ISLAMIC STATE GROUP POSITIONS IN SYRIA
Moscow says its missiles hit the extremists’ heavy weapons and fighters whom the group deployed and moved to Palmyra from its stronghold of Raqqa.